ORR/John Eliot Gardiner – review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonA generation ago, a John Eliot Gardiner Beethoven concert was a gathering of rebel upstarts, of musical sans-culottes throwing down a radical performance practice challenge to what Gardiner, in his pre-concert speech, called the old "meat and two veg" approach to the iconic symphonies.But Gardiner is part of the establishment now. The traditional orchestras have embraced his nouvelle cuisine approach. He was himself in the Barbican audience at some of Riccardo Chailly...

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